THE ADMINISTRATION: Long Knives for Ezra

The day before President
Eisenhower took off for Europe and Asia, his White House breakfast
guest was Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton. Morton reported
on the general comeback in Republican popularity and rising hopes for
1960, then got down to what had been on the minds of top-level
Republican strategists for weeks. The G.O.P.'s big trouble for 1960,
said Morton, is the farm belt. Not only will the Republicans have
trouble holding on to the remaining G.O.P. congressional seats and the
six contested Midwestern Senate seats, but they might even lose the
presidency if the Democrats should play the...